Paving the way for Holy Land

WATERBURY – Mayor Neil M. O’Leary and volunteers working to refurbish Holy Land USA hope to reopen the shuttered religious theme park later this year. If they do so, it will be thanks in part to services donated or discounted by large contractors. This week, Empire Paving repaved a parking lot, along with access roads […]

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When Father McGiviney is officially declared a saint, it will be good to have Holy Land open as part of the sites for religious tourists/spiritual pilgrims to visit in Waterbury and Thomaston (Father McGiviney served as a priest at St. Thomas Church in Thomaston).

If the mayor and his friend own it why are they getting free labor, reduced prices on services? The article mentions a board of directors. Is Holy Land an Llc or a non profit organization? If they incorporated into a nonprofit then it makes it a little clearer. An explanation for city residents would be nice. Other than that I think it’s a good project.

It’s privately owned. It doesn’t matter. As much as I don’t care for O’Leary, I think its good that local companies care enough about one of the last monuments in Waterbury to do donate their services. Plus it’s a big F U to the atheist groups. They must love driving by it whenever they go through waterbury and not being able to do a thing about it.

Ask all the questions you may but you’ll never get the truth from O’Leary. His name shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same article as saintly Father McGiviney. He might be ” Paving the Way for Holy Land ” in this life but it won’t be enough to pave his way out of the fires of hell…

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